• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.423-429
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• 2020

A ship's automatic steering system is the basis for addressing control difficulties related to course-changing and course-keeping during navigation through heading angle control, and is a link in realizing unmanned and autonomous ships. This study proposes a robust RCGA-based linear active disturbance rejection controller (LADRC) design method considering environmental disturbances, measurement noise, and model uncertainties in designing a ship heading controller for use when the ship is sailing. The LADRC consisted of a transient profile, a linear extended state observer, and a PD controller. The control gains in the LADRC with the linear extended state observer were adjusted by RCGAs to minimize the integral of the time-weighted absolute error (ITAE), which is an evaluation function of the control system. The proposed method was applied to ship heading control, and its effectiveness was validated by comparing the propulsive energy loss between the proposed method and a conventional linear PD controller. The simulation results showed that the proposed method had the advantages of lower propulsive energy loss, more robustness, and higher tracking precision than the conventional linear PD controller.

• The Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.103-110
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• 1995

Fuzzy theory is recently finding wide popularity in various applications that include management, economics, medicine and process control system. This paper describes application of fuzzy logic in a current control system that use a inverter welding machine. The Fuzzy control is then extended to the current loop control, replacing the conventional proportional-integral(PI) control methods. The fuzzy control algorithms have been developed in detail and verified by experiments of a inverter welding system. The experimentation study indicates the superiority of fuzzy control over the I control methods. Fuzzy control seems to have a lot of promise in the applications of welding process control system.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.349-356
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• 2021

Permanent magnet synchronous motors are mainly used in the traction of electric vehicle and home application products including air-conditioners and refrigerators. For sensorless control without rotor position sensors, I-F control is applied for initial starting at low speeds, and mode is changed to sensorless control when the rotor speed is sufficiently accelerated for estimating rotor position. When the mode is changed to the sensorless control from the open-loop starting, the initial integral value of the speed controller should be considered by load condition; otherwise, the transition to sensorless control may fail. The sensorless transfer algorithm of PM synchronous motor based on load condition for smooth transition is proposed. The performance of the proposed sensorless transfer algorithm was verified by experiments.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.565-569
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• 2003

In this paper, a robust filter is proposed to effectively estimate the system states in the case where system model uncertainties as well as disturbances are present. The proposed robust filter is constructed based on the linear approximation methods for a general nonlinear uncertain system with an integral quadratic constraint. We also derive the important characteristic of the proposed filter, a modified $H_{\infty}$ performance index. Analysis results show that the proposed filter has robustness against disturbances, such as process and measurement noises, and against parameter uncertainties. Simulation results show that the proposed filter effectively improves the performance.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.211-218
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• 1983

In this paper, an attempt is made to match the continuous state trajectory of the digital control system with that of its continuous data model. Matching the state trajectories instead of the output responses assures that the performances of the internal variables of the plant as well as the output variables are preserved in the discretization. The mathematical tool used in this research is an extended maximum principle of the Pontryagin type, which enables one to synthesize a staircase type of optimal control signals, such as the output signal of a zero-order hold asociated with a digital controller. A general mathematical expression of the digital controller which may be used to replace the analog controller of a general system while preserving as mauch as possible the performance characteristics of the original continuous-data control system is derived in this paper.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.268-270
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 댐핑이 고려된 전력계통에서 동요시 안정도를 향상시킬 수 있는 확장된 PI제어를 이용한 조속기 제어기를 제안하였다. 전력계통에서의 동요는 대부분 고장기간 동안에 발전기에 저장된 과잉운동에너지에 의해 발생한다. 계통이 안정하도록 하기 위해서 과잉에너지를 효과적으로 다루려면 보통 직접법을 사용된다. 과잉에너지를 제어하기 위한 직접적인 방법으로는 LFC(Load Frequency Control)의 궤한이 활용된다. 확장된 PI제어 방식이 적용된 제어기는 지역내에서와 지역사이에서의 동요를 감쇄시키기 위한 조속기에 적용될 수 있다 또한 제안된 제어기는 조속기에 스팀밸브 제한 조건이나 발전율 제약조건(Generation Rate Constraint; GRC)과 같은 특이점이 존재할 때에도 우수한 성능을 보여주었다. 시뮬레이션은 두지역의 다기계통에서 부하를 변화시켜가며 실시하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과는 제안된 PI 제어기를 기존의 PI 제어기와 비교하여 매우 향상된 성능을 보여주었다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.582-592
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• 2009

This paper proposes a new speed sensorless direct torque and flux controlled interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) drive. Closed-loop control of both the torque and stator flux linkage are achieved by using two proportional-integral (PI) controllers. The reference voltage vectors are generated by a SVM unit. The drive uses an adaptive sliding mode observer for joint stator flux and rotor speed estimation. Global asymptotic stability of the observer is achieved via Lyapunov analysis. At low speeds, the observer is combined with the high frequency signal injection technique for stable operation down to standstill. Hence, the sensorless drive is capable of exhibiting high dynamic and steady-state performances over a wide speed range. The operating range of the direct torque and flux controlled (DTFC) drive is extended into the high speed region by incorporating field weakening. Experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.339-349
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• 2017

In this paper, we present a finite-time sliding mode control (FSMC) with an integral finite-time sliding surface for applying the concept of graph theory to a distributed wheeled mobile robot (WMR) system. The kinematic and dynamic property of the WMR system are considered simultaneously to design a finite-time sliding mode controller. Next, consensus and formation control laws for distributed WMR systems are derived by using the graph theory. The kinematic and dynamic controllers are applied simultaneously to compensate the dynamic effect of the WMR system. Compared to the conventional sliding mode control (SMC), fast convergence is assured and the finite-time performance index is derived using extended Lyapunov function with adaptive law to describe the uncertainty. Numerical simulation results of formation control for WMR systems shows the efficacy of the proposed controller.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.59 no.2
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• pp.145-154
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• 2023

In this study, to control the heading angle of a ship, which is constantly subjected to various internal and external disturbances during the voyage, an LADRC (linear active disturbance rejection control) design that focuses more on improving the disturbance removal performance was proposed. The speed rate of change of the ship's heading angle due to the turn of the rudder angle was selected as a significant factor, and the nonlinear model of the ship's maneuvering equation, including the steering gear, was treated as a total disturbance. It is the similar process with an LADRC design for the first-order transfer function model. At this time, the gains of the controller included in LADRC and the gains of the extended state observer were tuned to RCGAs (real-coded genetic algorithms) to minimize the integral time-weighted absolute error as an evaluation function. The simulation was performed by applying the proposed GA-LADRC controller to the heading angle control of the Mariner class vessel. In particular, it was confirmed that the proposed controller satisfactorily maintains and follows the set course even when the disturbances such as nonlinearity, modelling error, uncertainty and noise of the measurement sensor are considered.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.606-623
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• 2019

The path following problem of a ship sailing in restricted waters under wind effect is investigated based on Robust $H_{\infty}$ Guaranteed Cost Control (RHGCC). To design the controller, the ship maneuvering motion is modeled as a linear uncertain system with norm-bounded time-varying parametric uncertainty. To counteract the bank and wind effects, the integral of path error is augmented to the original system. Based on the extended linear uncertain system, sufficient conditions for existence of the RHGCC are given. To obtain an optimal robust $H_{\infty}$ guaranteed cost control law, a convex optimization problem with Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) constraints is formulated, which minimizes the guaranteed cost of the close-loop system and mitigates the effect of external disturbance on the performance output. Numerical simulations have confirmed the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed control strategy for the path following goal of a ship sailing in restricted waters under wind effect.